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Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
American Playwright
Born: Oct 17, 1915
Died: Feb 10, 2005
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Related authors: August Wilson David Henry Hwang George C. Wolfe Howard E. Koch Katori Hall Lorraine Hansberry Lynn Nottage Sam Shepard
Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. Arthur Miller
Truth Betrayal Only Sticks
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. Arthur Miller
Life Man Commitment Approaches Say More Point Emotion He Concentration Call His Tragedy Fixed Intense Closer Fanaticism Which
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. Arthur Miller
Value Profit Thinking Seduced Make Without Does Which
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from. Arthur Miller
You Walk Release Would Rather Throat Could Emotion Write Observe Well Audience Were Grab Than Trying Which Them Away Presenting Plays
The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life. Arthur Miller
Life Like Because Accidental Endlessly Theater Much Fascinating
Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not. Arthur Miller
Me You Judge Sometimes Goodness Look Judge Me
If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that. Arthur Miller
Good Value Shoes Nothing Faults Tried Good Pair Some Having Simply Failures Make Any Justification Pair Lived
He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world. Arthur Miller
Son World Live Case More Poignant Through He Anonymous Masterpiece His Get Gets Want Wants Us
Man must shape his tools lest they shape him. Arthur Miller
Man Tools Must Shape Him His Lest
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? Arthur Miller
Paradise Action Innocence Absence Begins Any Ends Where Choice Choose Need
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. Arthur Miller
Character Human Being Must Finest He Attention Terrible Him Terrible Thing Human Being Happening Paid Lived Ever Thing
I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match. Arthur Miller
Love Too Our Neuroses Match Just Her
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera. Arthur Miller
You Looking On-Screen Marks Recognized Out Tend House Were Camera Blotted Screen Quotation Theater While
Without alienation, there can be no politics. Arthur Miller
Politics Alienation Without
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. Arthur Miller
You Walk Though Dream Find Dreaming Some About Through House Coming Wake Door Cannot Sleep
A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for! Arthur Miller
People Suicide Maggie Two Two People
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. Arthur Miller
Money Everybody Nobody Likes Him Lends
You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you. Arthur Miller
Day You One Day Find Something Until Specialize
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility. Arthur Miller
Job Face Humility Absence Always Answers Inexorably Precise Them Ask Certain
Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way. Arthur Miller
You Fight Way Out Never Fair Boy Jungle Get Stranger
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. Arthur Miller
Love You Will Must Running Spirit Catch Soon Return Still Itself Child After Cannot Stand
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay. Arthur Miller
You Country Live Playwright Way Stay Occupied Lives
I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem. Arthur Miller
Myself Great Problem Think Statement Possible Rather Most Great Thing Answer Accurate Theater Formulation Much Now Thing
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. Arthur Miller
Life People Innocent Country Insane Unable Asylum See Drift Through Most Truly Any Place Themselves
Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author. Arthur Miller
Life Game Find Minor Diverse Most Pastime Author Literary Certainly
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. Arthur Miller
You Experience Problem Feeling Realistic Cost Had Simply Real Were His Yes Person Real Person Intense Any Sustain Theater Episodes Series Watching
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